Emily
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| Series: | The X-Files |
| Original Airdate: | December 14, 1997 |
| Production Number: | 5X07 |
| Date(s): | December 28, 1997- early January 1998 |
| Written by: | Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz |
| Directed by: | Kim Manners |
Scully comes to terms with the shocking revelation that a mysterious little girl is her daughter, although the details surrounding her creation are horrifically sinister and unforgiving.
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[edit] Summary
In a dream-like sequence Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) walks through a desert and picks up a gold cross necklace on the ground. Continuing from the previous episode, agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) arrives at the hospital in San Diego where Scully introduces him to Emily. Mulder tells Scully that Frohike has found that Emily's surrogate mother is a woman named Anna Fugazzi (slang for fake) and that there no true records of how Emily came into the world. Mulder, along with Scully's family attend a meeting regarding Emily's adoption at the San Diego Hall of Justice. Mulder tells the Judge that Emily was conceived from Scully's ova, which was taken from her during her abduction, which he has a hard time believing. Later, Scully receives an abandoned call from the County Children's Center, and she and Mulder head there, where they find Emily safe, but coming down with a fever. They find a greenish cyst on the back of Emily's neck. Later, when a nurse pierces the cyst with a needle, green liquid comes out, causing her to become gravely ill. Emily appears unaffected. Mulder believes that Emily has the same body chemistry that they have seen before with alien-human hybrids.
Dr. Calderon refuses to transfer Emily's medical records to the County Children's Center, causing Mulder to visit him and rough him up when he refuses to do anything. Later Mulder follows Calderon after he leaves his office. Scully has imaging tests conducted on Emily. Calderon goes to see the Dark Suited Men, one of whom kills him by stabbing him in the neck with a stiletto. Both men morph into Calderon. Mulder follows as one of them leaves. The results of Emily's tests show her to be suffering from a tumorous infection. The other Calderon arrives at the hospital and injects Emily with something. He escapes by morphing into someone else. Scully believes that he is trying to continue the treatments and that the Sims were murdered because they were trying to stop him. Mulder heads to a building he saw Calderon going to, where he meets Anna Fugazzi, an elderly woman in a nursing home.
The doctor tells Scully that Emily is getting worse. A woman from the adoption agency arrives and wants to stop Scully from making decisions for Emily. Mulder connects the names of the women in the nursing home to recent births and finds that Dr. Calderon was treating them. Emily suffers from a terrible reaction after being placed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Mulder finds medical records with Scully's name on them at the nursing home. He also finds a fetus in a refridgerated chamber. Mulder finds Calderon entering soon after, and Detective Kresge arrives as well. Mulder warns Kresge not to shoot him, but he does so anyway after Calderon attacks him and green blood comes out of him. Calderon morphs into Kresge and is able to trick Mulder into letting him leave. Mulder returns to the hospital, where Emily has gone into a coma. Days later Emily has passed away. Mulder visits Scully at the funeral chapel, telling her that Kresge has recovered and all evidence at the nursing home and Transgen is gone. The only evidence left is Emily's body, but the agents find sand bags in her coffin instead.
[edit] Background Information
- Child actress Lauren Diewold was later cast as murderous Danielle Barbakow, who she played in the Season 2 Millennium episode "Monster", and it was her performance in this episode that won her that role.
- The animated program seen on the hospital t.v. is Life With Louie, a Fox animated series hosted by Louie Anderson. This was the first of several instances in season 5 that other Fox shows were featured in the background of episodes.
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[edit] Guest Stars
- David Abbott as Judge Maibaum
- Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike
- Eric Breker as First Dark Suited Man
- Patricia Dahlquist as Susan Chambliss
- Lauren Diewold as Emily Sim
- Tanya Huse as Medical Technician
- Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully
- Stephen Model as Second Dark Suited Man
- Bob Morrisey as Dr. Vinet
- Sheila Paterson as Anna Fugazzi
- Gerard Plunkett as Dr. Calderon
- John Pyper-Ferguson as Detective John Kresge
- Pat Skipper as William Scully, Jr.
- Karri Turner as Tara Scully
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